First Round: Autism vs. Kickball

AUTISM

Seed: 8

Overview: Autism is everybody's favorite fad disorder! You've certainly seen it on the cover of Time or CNN. Enough said.

Pros: Autistic kids are usually pretty funny and cool.

Cons: Often confused with Asperger's syndrome, a disorder with only a fraction of the pop culture sexiness.

Overview: It's hard to say how people will vote on this one. For instance...does a parent of an autistic child vote FOR the disorder in support of their child, or against it in a fit of Cure Autism Now fervor? Difficult questions to answer.




KICKBALL

Seed: 9

Overview: Kickball is a game that is mostly played by elementary school children and the occasional hipster. It is exactly like baseball except you kick a larger rubber ball.

Pros: You can peg people to get them out. That's pretty fun. The rules are simple.

Cons: Inexplicably absent from most people's day-to-day consciousness.

Outlook: Kickball has been severely underrated for years. Beats me why there aren't 40,000 people flocking to kickball stadiums around the nation every day. In the meantime, kickball faces an intriguing first round match-up and it should be interesting.